Anna Theodora Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is an English actress who has appeared widely on TV, film and in the theatre. She received a nomination for BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lix Storm in The Hour (2011–2012), and has twice been nominated for Olivier Awards, in 1997 for her performances in Stanley at the National Theatre, and again in 2014 for Private Lives at the Gielgud Theatre. She was also nominated for an award at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival in 2007 and for one at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards in 2013. On television, she is also known for her roles in the ITV series Kavanagh QC (1995-1997) and Grantchester (2016); the BBC series Pride and Prejudice (1995), Tipping the Velvet (2002), Spooks (2005-2007), Pramface (2012–2014), Ordeal by Innocence (2018) and Rain Dogs (2023); the Channel 5 series Suburban Shootout (2006–2007); the Netflix series The Crown (2017); the Epix series Pennyworth (2019–2021); and the BritBox series Hotel Portofino (2022). Her films include Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), and How I Live Now (2013).

Filmography

• 2026Box of Frogs — Anna
• My Brilliant Career — Mrs. Bossier
• 2025Brighton Storeys
• Outrageous — Sydney Bowles Mitford
• 2025Playhouse Creatures — Mrs Betterton
• The Girlfriend — Lillith Greenway
• My Lady Jane — Lady Frances Grey
• Fifteen-Love — And Woodward
• Rain Dogs — Allegra
• Compulsion — Sasha
• Hotel Portofino — Lady Latchmere
• 2022Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris — Lady Dant
• 2022Stromboli — Diane
• That Dirty Black Bag — Hellen
• The Watch — Lord Vetinari
• 2020Come Away — Eleanor Morrow
• 2019Benjamin — Tessa
• 2019For Love or Money — Carol
• 2019One Red Nose Day and a Wedding — Henrietta
• Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler — Frances Gaunt
• 2019The Importance of Being Oscar — Lady Bracknell
• 2018Nativity Rocks! — Clara Hargreaves
• Ordeal by Innocence — Rachel Argyll
• 2018The Happy Prince — Mrs. Arbuthnott
• Trust — Penelope
• 2017Love of My Life — Grace
• Timewasters — Victoria
• Flowers — Aunty Viv
• 2016National Theatre Live: The Seagull — Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
• New Blood — Eleanor Davies
• 2016The Carer — Milly
• The Crown — Lady Rosse
• 2016The Last Dragonslayer — Stuffco president
• 2016This Beautiful Fantastic — Mrs Bramble
• 2015Testament of Youth — Mrs. Leighton
• Fleming — Second Officer Monday
• Inside No. 9 — Elizabeth
• Mapp and Lucia — Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas
• Penny Dreadful — Claire Ives
• 2014Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled — Queen Victoria
• 2014Sardines — Elizabeth
• 2013Confessions of an Alien Abductee — Narrator
• 2013How I Live Now — Aunt Penn
• 2013Private Lives — Amanda Prynne
• Shetland — Phyllis Brennan
• A Touch of Cloth — Hope Goodgirl
• Pramface — Janet Derbyshire
• 2012We'll Take Manhattan — Lucie Clayton
• Death in Paradise — Ciss Dacre
• Hidden — Elspeth Verney
• 2011Hysteria — Mrs. Bellamy
• The Hour — Lix Storm
• 2010Critical Eye — Laura
• Downton Abbey — Lady Anstruther
• Law & Order: UK — Evelyn Wyndham
• Miranda — Helena
• 2007Christmas at the Riviera — Diane
• Lewis — Judith Suskin
• 2007Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars — Irene Adler
• Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars — Irene Adler
• 2007St Trinian's — Miss Bagstock
• 2006Breaking and Entering — Kate
• Suburban Shootout — Camilla Diamond
• 2006The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton — Elizabeth Doring
• 2005A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets — Anne Hathaway
• 2005The Best Man — Dana
• 2005The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Questular Rontok
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Lydia Horton
• 2004Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London — Jo Kenworth
• Blue Dove — Maria Bishop
• Hustle — Wendy Stanton
• 2004Roman Road — Maddy Bancroft
• 2003100 Greatest Sexy Moments — Narrator (voice)
• 2003Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie — Nicky Bowden
• Fortysomething — Estelle Slippery
• 2003The Dreamers — Mother
• 2003What a Girl Wants — Glynnis Payne
• 2003Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose — Professor's Daughter (voice)
• 2002Crush — Molly Cartwright
• Spooks — Juliet Shaw
• 2002The Real Jane Austen — Presenter / Narrator
• Tipping the Velvet — Diana Lethaby
• The Cazalets — Diana Mackintosh
• Waking the Dead — Lucy Christie
• 2000Longitude — Muriel Gould
• Longitude — Muriel Gould
• My Family — Zelda Nobbs
• Rebus — Amanda Morrison
• 1999Heart — Nicole Farmer
• The Vice — Dr Christina Weir
• 1997FairyTale: A True Story — Peter Pan
• 1997The Man Who Knew Too Little — Barbara Ritchie
• Cold Lazarus — Anna Griffiths
• Karaoke — Anna Griffiths
• Silent Witness — Chief Supt. Karen Somerville
• Kavanagh Q.C. — Julia Piper
• Pride and Prejudice — Caroline Bingley
• 1994Four Weddings and a Funeral — Henrietta
• 1994Princess Caraboo — Mrs. Peake
• 1994Staggered — Carmen Svennipeg
• 1994Tom & Viv — Woman
• 1993Century — Woman in Police Station
• Jupiter Moon — Mercedes Page
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Virginie Mesnard
• 1989Killing Dad — Barmaid
• Inspector Morse — Sally Smith
• Casualty — Celia Morton

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant
• 2005Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' — Self